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• Failing to detain him could actually amount to abuse. The Sun
• They described ‘torture techniques’ and claimed that detainees had been forced into painful positions for 18 to 24 hours at a time or left to foul themselves.
• Prisons overbook for the same reason holiday camps do: to compensate for the inevitable number of detainees who fail to show up for confirmed reservations for one reason or another, or those who escape. Welsh prisons overbooked
• The detained calculation methods and steps are introduced on technology of flangeless cylindrical part. It possesses much better applicability in production and teaching.
• Kenya's colonial government had responded to the Mau Mau resistance movement by imposing a State of Emergency, detaining leading nationalist leader Jomo Kenyatta, and restricting political organizing.
• Airport police were initially alerted after a man who claimed the bag belonged to him was detained by security. The Sun
• At least 70 people have been detained in connection with the proposed rally, on charges of belonging to the banned group. Times, Sunday Times
• Six officers were lightly injured and thirteen people were detained. Times, Sunday Times
• Can the Commonwealth detain bankrupts for the purpose of examining them, on the basis that some bankrupts are likely to flee before examination?
• The accounts have been based not only on the word of detainees, but of prison guards, translators, FBI agents and others.